I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
Oh God, I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but I grew up falling asleep in church because I was tired from watching horror movies late at night.
I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.
I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes to church. He's down the street. He's one of the boys at the schoolyard. They exist.
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.
I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
